But going with a self-hosted approach like Towonel, you need a server with a public IP too. And I think what the commenter meant is, if you already have that, you can just setup a WireGuard connection to that public server, so that it can route the traffic to your local network.

But this is not what that discussion is about. The person above said that the employees should pay their AI usage with part of their salaries. We’re not talking about freelancing or similar.

When I’m employed for 100k a year, 40h per week, I can’t just only work 20h per week, but claiming to have worked 40h. My employer would not be very happy about that, because my pay is not directly bound to the amount of deliverables I create but how many hours I actually work.

And with AI they just hope, that I get the work of 60h done in only 40h. If I just work less without disclosing it and someone finds out, I could say goodbye to my job and probably also get sued.

Amazing, thanks! :)

This sounds good! Thanks :) is there a limit on how much is cached locally? Can I theoretically go on a 2 week trip in the nowhere without internet and then upload everything when I have connection again?

Makes sense, thanks for the heads-up. I’ll tag them myself.

First time I hear about this and I’ll definitely try it out. It looks awesome!

One question though, does the server need to be publicly accessible or does the app do it’s tracking locally and then saves it on the server when I get home again? I didn’t see that in the docs but I’ve not looked very deep into that so sorry if I have missed it.

But the employers want their employees to use it, (because of some unfounded promises about performance boosts). So I don’t really get your point.

Well that is such a unique case. I’ve never heard any employer being okay with clocking hours that were not actually worked. And in your case it’s essentially just a raise with extra steps.

Well that’s just working-hour fraud, you can do that even without using AI.

What a stupid take. Why should employee then even consider using it, when the cost for it would directly reduce their salary?

If I’m not completely mistaken, the kernel (and maybe other packages too) are not “hot-swapped” during runtime. You’re not using the new kernel until you performed a reboot.

Well, I dont. I’m fully aware of the footguns Arch based distros contain. I generally recommend Mint for Linux beginners. If the person is tech savvy and needs something for their gaming rig, then I might mention Bazzite.

There are plenty of other distros users can choose from, if they don’t want to deal with that. But picking one that is designed for advanced “nerdy” users and then ignoring those explicit warnings is just pure negligence.

You can’t imagine how sad your comment makes me feel.

Bruno is pretty decent, though I don’t like that it’s not fully FOSS. The whole premium feature stuff is closed source, if I’m not mistaken.

I’ve been searching for alternatives as well, especially since Insomnia introduced mandatory account creation.

I think Yaak is pretty good and I recently found out about Voiden, though I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet.

Edit: I forgot to mention that if you’re using IntelliJ Ultimate for what you’re doing, it has a built-in HTTP client too. We use that a lot at work, because then you can have the requests directly together with your application’s source code inside your repository, which is kinda handy.

I don’t know how Woodpecker works, but I have a lot of experience with Gitlab runners. You can startup a runner locally, as it doesn’t need to be publicly accessible from the internet. Only the Gitlab instance needs to be accessible for the runner, as the runner actively fetches new jobs from there and pushes the results again.

If Woodpecker works similarly, you could just deploy the runner locally while you’re actively developing and your computer is running anyway, if you don’t want to pay for a VPS.